Ah yes, when one has slumber’d over long,

The birds of memory refuse their song.

[Laying his hand on Lind’s shoulder, with an ironical look.

You, Lind, slept sound last night, I guarantee?

Lind.

And long. I went to bed in such depression,

And yet with such a fever in my brain,

I almost doubted if I could be sane.

Falk.

Ah yes, a sort of witchery, you see.